On Aug. 27, the old Google Mail compose experience will be permanently replaced by the new compose experience. Learn more about the new compose experience.

If you prefer having a larger space to compose messages, new compose offers a variety of window options, including:

• Small compose
• Full-screen compose
• Pop-out compose
• Compose in a new tab
• Full-screen and pop-out reply and forward

Learn more about these options.

To try out some of these options in new compose, click  (in the top-right corner of a new compose message) or hold down the SHIFT key and click .